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If you believe these stocks are going to continue to go to P/E multiples of infinity (like the FANG stocks) or feel that other stocks in the market are undervalued based on economic and geopolitical conditions perhaps you should turn your money over to someone more qualified to manage it.

The deteriorating junk bond market, along with rising credit spreads, is indicating that we will have a stock market correction in about 3-6 months. Here are the details.

Every year, Forbes analyzes the sports world to produce a list of the 50 most valuable sports teams in the world. This year’s list includes 20 NFL teams, 12 MLB teams, 10 NBA teams, 7 soccer teams, 1 NHL team, and 1 racing team (Formula One) worth, on average, $1.75 billion each, which is up 31% from 2014.

Using the data provided by Barclays commodities analyst Michael Cohen, we put together a list of the 10 countries sitting on the greatest amounts of proven crude oil reserves (bbl). Check them out below.

In 2011, the IRS introduced the Foreign Account Compliance Act, or FACTA to “minimize tax cheats” but in doing so FACTA is making banking - and life in general- painfully difficult for millions of American expats. The affects of FACTA are illustrated in the following infographic.

The American Dream--characterized by plentiful jobs offering living wages, security and opportunities to get ahead--is over....Piling on debt is not a solution; it's simply a politically expedient method to forestall the crisis, while guaranteeing the eventual repricing will be even more severe because the debt load is then so much larger. If you think otherwise, I strongly recommend that you reduce your dosage of Delusionol.

Today, swimsuit models, hemlines, and even Twitter all have somethingswimsuit 2015 to say about the economy - if we know what to look for - and MarketWatch examined 13 unusual economic indicators, concluding from the evidence that the outlook is mixed.

China has increasingly poured billions of dollars of foreign direct investment capital into Africa..and is now invested in 46 of 54 African countries, mainly with a focus on metals, energy, and infrastructure...Investments in 2015 up until June have totaled $17.8 billion, and are on pace to reach $42 billion by the end of this year. The infographic below will help you visualize China's investment in China.

The yuan will be added to the IMF’s basket of currencies used to value the SDR in October 2016, with a weighting on 10.92%, which effectively anoints the yuan (also called the renminbi) as a major reserve currency. What are the long-term implications of this? Read on.

Below is a list of 10 longer-term investment books that I recommend. They aren't all pure investment books (some of them teach you how markets operate in general, doing so in a clever way) but they will help you understand the markets and investing, and make you a bigger-picture thinker.